Hey @carnage-mode, where did you go? ;) I have looked a bit more into this, and my understanding is that there are two packages — fonts-sil-abyssinica and fonts-freefont-ttf — with fonts which can render Amharic and which are installed by default on Ubuntu.
But only by installing fonts-noto-core, without uninstalling any of the others, I notice a significant difference at e.g. <https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1%8A%9B> since it makes use of "Noto Sans Ethiopic". Final freeze for Ubuntu 21.10 is tomorrow, but if you confirm very soon that it would be helpful, I can change it so that fonts-noto-core is automatically installed if you install the Amharic language. If you would like to see more extensive tweaks, it will need to be discussed further after the Ubuntu 21.10 release. Let me know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1945817 Title: Change default Amharic font from Abyssinica SIL to Noto Serif Ethiopic Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Description of problem: Abyssinica SIL is an old font. It's barely legible and breaks in most apps. Noto Serif Ethiopic, on the other hand, is a modern and well designed font. Noto Serif Ethiopic is distributed with the Open Font License, so packaging it won't be a problem. Link https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif+Ethiopic?noto.query=Amharic¬o.script=Ethi Version: 20.04.3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pretty much using the the Amharic language anywhere on Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1945817/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
